Experience of surgical treatment of the thymic gland tumors
Shipulin, P.P.; Pirozhenko, V.V.; Martyniuk, V.A.; Baĭdan, V.I.; Ageev, S.V.; Verbetskiĭ, S.E.; Baĭdan, V.V.; Severgin, V.E.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 8: 20-22
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 12378930 Document Number: 543555
The forty-years experience of treatment of 125 patients with thymic gland tumors was summarized, in 113 of them thymoma was revealed. In the disease of I-II stages the five-year survival index had constituted 75.6%, and in III-IV stages the method of choice is combined treatment, after which the five-years survival index does not exceed 31.2%. It is necessary to perform additional studying of factors, influencing the result of treatment of the thymic gland tumor.